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Updated: June 18, 2025
Price and the fingerprint expert, Carraway, did not hear him. For a moment he stood just inside the door and let his eyes wander about the room which Penny Crain had already described. It was not a large room twelve by fourteen feet, possibly but it looked even smaller, crowded as it was with the long ping-pong table, bags of golf clubs, fishing tackle, tennis racquets, skis and sleds.
"I think your stupid man the most interesting we have met since we left home, Gertrude," remarked Marie at her embroidery after dinner. "I told you he would be," said Mrs. Whitney, suppressing a yawn. Gertrude was playing ping-pong with Doctor Lanning. "But isn't he homely?" she exclaimed, sending a cut ball into the doctor's watch-chain.
Sometimes it was a concert, sometimes a billiard tournament, or a ping-pong tournament, or a competition in draughts or chess. Occasionally, under the management of a lady who specialised in such things, we had a hat-trimming competition, an enormously popular kind of entertainment both for spectators and performers.
It heard many divergent opinions as to what the Column was going to do; some contending that it was waiting to be re-inforced by the "Sixth Division"; more dictating with fiery rancour that it was for the "Seventh Division" the Column waited; another insisting that the "Seventh Division" was operating a thousand miles away and all of us knowing about as much of the Sixth or Seventh Division's movements as Plato did of ping-pong!
The cowboys watched him with grave, uncomprehending eyes. "He starts with a case five and runs it up to eight thousand dollars, that's all." Stover uttered an exclamation of astonishment, whereupon the New- Yorker grew even bolder. "The next week he hops over to Bar Harbor and wins the Furturity Ping-pong stakes from scratch. That's worth twenty thousand if it's worth a lead nickel.
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